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American Colonies and Lives of Slaves

In nine pages this paper considers what slavery was like in the American colonies with North and South differences duly noted alo...

The Institution of Slavery and its Impact on American Life

In five pages the ways in which the autobiographies of Benjamin Franklin and Frederick Douglass reflect slavery in America are exa...

Fences by August Wilson 2

Troy and his son Cory. August Wilson establishes an impression of the 53-year-old Troy Maxson early in Act I, writing that he ...

Writings of Frederick Douglass

In five pages this paper focuses mostly on Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass in a consideration of the African American ...

Comparing and Contrasting Harriet Jacobs and Booker T. Washington

The writer compares and contrasts the lives and work of Harriet Jacobs and Booker T. Washington, and the prejudice they faced beca...

Versatile Shoe's Product Life Cycle

can go from dress to casual with the use of interchangeable sole sections is far more innovative than is the introduction of a fiv...

How Ralph Ellison’s Life Affected His Writing

that I was strong enough and violent enough to kill somebody in a fit of anger" (Allen 24). There is an unsettling undercurrent o...

Prevalence of HIV/AIDS in the African-American Population of Houston, Texas

state declined by 20% (HHS System Strategic Plan for FY 2005-2009). This encouraging news did not extend to the black community, h...

Literature and Film Related to Rural Life

the Grapes of Wrath the family is mobile, that is really not by choice and even when they face such a hardship, they remain close....

Living in Misery

there was only a small fireplace and we never had enough wood to keep the cabin warm. It was very cold in winter, but at least it ...

Laboring for the Workers

increasingly difficult task. Tony Mazzocchi has been fighting that battle for years. Mazzocchi served in three different campaign...

Maya Deren and the Shadow Self

on the table with a knife still perched within it, a telephone off the hook on the stairs, as if someone is on hold. Her mind imme...

Family Life in the American Colonies

(Demos, 2000, p. But this common kitchen tool was also "used by conjurers magicians in obscure ceremonies of fortune-telling" in t...

Toni Morrison as a Stylist in Sula

bedroom and gently holds him. Then she pours kerosene over the sleeping man and burns him to death. Morrison writes that Plum ope...

Nineteenth Century Authors James, Davis, and Twain

Smiley, knowing full-well that this would set the old gentleman off on a rant about Jim Smiley and the celebrated jumping frog. Th...

Adult Development and Aging

an adolescent and grown adult. His elementary and middle school years were full of academic lessons, caring for his siblings and ...

Life and Contributions of American Gossip Journalist Walter Winchell

In seven pages this paper examines the contributions gossip pioneer Walter Winchell made to US society from the 1920s through the ...

US Constitution and its Widespread Influence

In six pages this paper discusses how the US Constitution has influenced American life, meaning, and political theory. Seven sour...

Life and Poetry of Emily Dickinson

In a paper consisting of 6 pages Emily Dickinson's life and poetry are considered with a discussion of her American literary contr...

Native American Culture and Way of Life Decimation

intentionally changed, actions which were all believed justified under the predominant mindset of "manifest destiny". The rel...

The Sociological Phenomenon That Was Andy Kaufman

In six pages the conflicting views on this late comic's career are noted while the writer applauds his uncompromising slice of Ame...

Life on the Frontier and the Impact of the Homestead Act

passed the Homestead Act in May 1862. The act provided that any person who was either the head of a family, 21 years old, or a ve...

Biography of American Tennis Champion Venus Williams

I dont have to wake up like that any more " ("Victorious" PG). And while the talent seems to have been a part of her biology, tenn...

Filipino American Life

California (05B). The majority are foreign born (05B). Unlike the Irish, Italian and Jewish immigrants for example, where current ...

The Role of Nonprofit Organizations in American Society

means that while these organizations serve a public purpose of some sort, they also "meet the interests, needs and desires of the ...

Early American History and Free African Americans

my opinion, yet I consider our condition but little better than that....After all, methinks there are no chains so galling as thos...

American Life Duality and the Tradition of John Locke

to living their lives at the mercy of their rulers. The vote for colonial democracy was a vote for the freedoms that are intrinsi...

Modern Day American Life and The Application of A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift

of irony ("Literature" PG). Swift emphasizes the horrible poverty found in eighteenth-century Ireland as he ironically proposes th...

American Writer Gus Lee's Life and Works

naval vessel for the voyage to California" (Sherwin). At this point the family found itself reunited and "Two years later, Lee was...

African American Life of Frederick Douglass

by and watch what he had worked for his whole life dissipate in front of his eyes. Douglass was not the typical African...